“The situation is that dire,” Fithian told Variety. “Overnight, we went from an industry that makes $15 billion a year — $11 billion in ticket sales and $4 billion in concessions — to one that is not going to make a penny for three or four months,” he added. “Most of these theaters, not all of them, but most of them, will go bankrupt if this does not pass,” said Fithian. “If this goes through, it will provide a whole lot of help to industries that need it like restaurants and bars and bowling alleys and retailers.” Coincidentally, this past Friday, Christopher Nolan penned a Washington Post op-ed pleading for congress and the powers-that-be to save theaters amid this furious global pandemic. Contribute Hire me
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